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North Korea seeks “equilibrium” in military force against the US, the hermit nation’s dictator claimed Saturday.
“Our final goal is to establish the equilibrium of real force with the US and make the US rulers dare not talk about military option,” Kim Jong-un was quoted as saying by the state news agency, KCNA.
It’s unclear what Kim means when he says he seeks some kind of military parity with the US.
The US has more than 6,000 nuclear warheads. North Korea might have up to 60, including one small enough to be put on a missile, The Washington Post reported in August.
North Korea on Friday launched a missile across northern Japan and into the Pacific Ocean.
Kim gave a “sudden order” to launch the Hwasong-12 missile, which “zoomed to the sky with dazzling flash and big explosion.”
US and world leaders were quick to condemn the launch, and said they were running out of patience with North Korea’s missile tests.
“There is a military option,” White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Friday.
